Check out my long post (from August 2017) about vocabulary building and the importance of vocabulary to a writer. It’s one of the best pieces (written by someone who knows from experience what he’s talking about) ever written on the subject.

Vocabulary: Building and Using One’s Own; The Delight of Same; Its Value to a Writer

https://rogers-rhetoric.com/2018/12/27/vocabulary-building-and-using-ones-own-the-delight-of-same-its-value-to-a-writer/

— Roger W. Smith